Finian's Rainbow Retains Much Magic; Love Child Fields Frenzy; Redgrave Cries for Nightingale

Joan Marcus

Do the sprite thing: Alina Fayeand Christopher Fitzgerald in Finian's Rainbow

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Finian's Rainbow
By Yip Harburg, Burton Lane, and Fred Saidy
St. James Theatre
246 West 44th Street, 212-239-6200

Love Child
By Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton
New World Stages
340 West 50th Street, 212-239-6200

Nightingale
By Lynn Redgrave
Manhattan Theatre Club
131 West 55th Street, 212-581-1212

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Lynn Redgrave, a dauntless soul and a commanding actress, works through another segment of her pain-ridden family background in her solo show Nightingale, finding and communicating the love, as well as the pathos, in the story of her maternal grandmother, affection-starved as a child and starchily Victorian as a parent, whom it must have been awfully hard to like. The show's sad-sweet effect is small-scale but cherishable, like a gift of an antique carved-ivory cameo.

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